dow djia: The jump puts the London benchmark neck-to-neck to the Dow DJIA, -0.29% in terms of yearly performance, with the American index on Friday flirting with a 13.6% 2016 advance, according to Market Watch. Caption outside of wrapper for normal article images The FTSE has also raced ahead of other European benchmarks, easily beating the Stoxx Europe 600 index's SXXP, 0.32% 1.2% drop for the year and the German DAX 30 index's DAX, 0.26% 6.9% climb. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, 0.32% has also scored a knockout year, ending 2016 with a 14% gain, it's biggest since 2013. Of course, for U.S. investors the stellar performance for U.K. stocks has been offset by the 17% slump for the pound in 2016. When we started in 2016, commodities, such as oil and mining, were massively out of favor and massively underperformed, which created a huge opportunity. The FTSE has been helped by two factors this year.
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